Category: Culture

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100 Greatest Foreign Films

In this top 100 foreign film list from DigitalDreamDoor, we highlight films also on Ken Boa’s list of recommended films due to their combination of artistic merit and spiritual/moral themes.

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Comparative Film Studies & Auteur Focuses

Supplementing Ken Boa’s film recommendations list, this is a list of film series ripe for comparative study (same filmmaker, same director, different director but same theme, and movie-to-book comparisons).

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Films with Spiritual & Moral Themes

Ken Boa’s oft-requested list of suggested films that have spiritual and moral themes. A longer list follows a short list of top recommendations.

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Kierkegaard’s King and Maiden Story

Nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote the following parable, which has been widely circulated. It alludes to the Song of Solomon (or Song of Songs), where King Solomon is shown disguising himself as a shepherd to win the heart of a Shulamite woman. [lead]”Suppose there was a king who

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Teaching Approaches and Learning Styles

Ken Boa explores seven approaches to teaching/learning, all used by Jesus, that demonstrate the importance of variety and unpredictability in our communication delivery methods. The seven methods are lecture, stories, visual aids, Q&A, discussion, drama, and projects. These are useful to anyone, but especially those who teach, preach, or mentor on a regular basis.

Thoughts on Abortion

Abortion is perhaps the central ethical issue of the past century. The key question is whether abortion is the murder of a living person and therefore when a human life begins.